They all give him the cold shake.

If he come around where any of the men was, they split up and sidled away.

They wouldn't man the sweeps with him.

The captain had all the skiffs hauled up on the raft, alongside of his wigwam, and wouldn't let the dead men be took ashore to be planted; he didn't believe a man that got ashore would come back; and he was right.
'After night come, you could see pretty plain that there was going to be trouble if that bar'l come again; there was such a muttering going on.

A good many wanted to kill Dick Allbright, because he'd seen the bar'l on other trips, and that had an ugly look.